Authors: Nilsona do Rosário Costa, Hugo Bellas, Paulo Roberto Fagundesa da Silva, Paulo Victor Rodrigues de Carvalho, Deborah Uhr, Cristine Vieira, Alessandro Jatobá
Community Health Workers (CHW) are a category of social workers described in many countries’ health systems as responsible for engaging people in their residences and communities, and other non-clinical spaces to enable access to health services, especially in low-income areas. The pandemic imposes unexpected challenges on the usual modes of interaction of public health officers with poor communities. .This study presents research findings on the risks that CHWs have been exposed to during the COVID-19 pandemic within the context of Brazil’s low-income communities.
Link: Equipping community health workers with digital tools for pandemic response in LMICs
Resource Topic: COVID, COVID-19, Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Primary Health Care
Resource Type: Research
Year: 2021
Region: Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)
Country: Brazil
Publisher May Restrict Access: No